Raven's Watch [m] α

Where blows a breeze flickers coarse red into the line of sight. Her eyes fall down just long enough to espy the rotted carnage pouring from the wild man’s unsettling grin to the depth of his chest. A hammering rival to her anxious heartbeat crackles around them and the huntress whips head overshoulder only to immediately regret it. Faust is suddenly there behind her, voice cracking with thunder and a gaze simmering his incipient rage. The mountain wolf’s cool device is more unsettling than if he’d meant to grab her outright. Instantly her tail tucks, ears slicking back upon her skull.
She’d done it, now. Ayovi could not know all the ways he intended to punish her disobedience if she were to fall back within his possession.
Her head rakes for the wild man but he’s already drawn her behind him, setting a distance and converging on Faust with battleworn competence. He delivers words she cannot understand and in rattling fear the woman sinks deeply into her heels, concealing herself behind the boulderstone body. Indigo eyes flick restlessly between the men and in the net of her soul Ayovi prays she has not traded one captor for another.